"Uh thanks for saving us back there sir." Darius says.
"Yeah. It was greatly appreciated." Alexis says.
"Yeah, yeah. It's the least I could do." The man says.
"Wait. Have we met before?" Darius asks before he and Alexis see Kenji gasping and acting strange.
"Kenji? Kenji are you alright?" Alexis asks as Kenji freaks out.
"Kenji!" Darius says in alarm.
"Pull... P-Pull over." Kenji says as he is gasping and grabbing the door handle.
"Dude pull over. Now!" Darius says sternly as he looks at the man driving.
"There's not a snowball's chance! Did I mention what just happened to that guy?" The man asks.
"Pull over! Now!" Alexis says as she grabs the man by his sleeve.
"Alright! Alright." The man says as he pulls over before Kenji quickly gets out gasping and sobbing.
"Oh Kenji." Alexis says sadly.
"Is he okay?" The man asks.
"That guy was his father." Darius says.
"Ah... Sorry. I-I didn't know." The man says.
"He... He's gone. He's gone." Kenji says sadly as Alexis and Darius go over to him before Kenji hugs them crying.
"We know Kenji." Alexis says.
"It'll be okay. Just try to take a breath." Darius says before Kenji finally manages to settle down.
"Uh sorry to uh... I know this is not... Look if we don't wanna end up like that gu... Y-Your uh... I mean we really gotta get going okay? That woman and her raptors could be on us at any second now so we gotta move." The man says before Darius gasps.
"Whoa. Wait a sec. You're from the DPW. Y-You were there the night Brooklynn died!" Darius says in surprise.
"W-What?" Kenji asks angrily before he grabs the man.
"Wait! Hey!" The man says in alarm.
"Are you the one doing this? First Brooklynn then my dad. Are we next on your list?" Kenji asks angrily.
"Please, please don't hurt me! My name is Mateo. I swear on everything I have I had nothing to do with your dad's death! And Brooklynn? No! I'd be dead if it wasn't for her! Please, please just let me go. I can tell you what happened." The man says fearfully as Kenji pins him to the car.
"We know what happened." Alexis says angrily.
"A rogue Allosaurus killed her." Darius says angrily.
"It wasn't rogue! It was there on purpose!" Mateo says in alarm.
"What?" Kenji asks angrily as a car passes by.
"What do you mean it was there on purpose?" Alexis asks angrily.
"I'll explain everything but we gotta get back on the road before those bizarrely well-trained raptors get to us. Please." Mateo says pleadingly.
"He did just save our lives." Darius says as Kenji reluctantly releases Mateo.
"Just don't make us regret this." Alexis says.
"You won't. I promise. Thank you." Mateo says as the group gets back into the car.
*Timeskip*
"Okay. We're not being followed. Tell us what happened that night." Kenji says as he looks out the window.
"Okay, okay. I was a truck driver for the DPW. My job was to transport dinosaurs from point A to point B. Didn't pay much, but it's work. And I got a little girl to support. But someone from the DPW reached out, said I could make a little overtime. I don't know who it was. We never talked in person. But it wasn't much different than what I was already doing. Take a tranq'ed dinosaur to a random spot. Offload it to a waiting unmarked truck. Extra cash shows up in my next paycheck. Easy money. I didn't ask but I'm no idiot. I knew all those drops couldn't exactly be legal. But at the time I thought what's the real harm? The dinosaurs are taken away, I can save for Hiraya's college and no one's getting hurt. Until that night. No other truck showed up. And the dino definitely wasn't sedated like they usually are. Plus the lock on the truck? Real fancy. I'd never seen anything like it. That's when it happened. I waited a long time in those bushes. I panicked when the police came. They figured I was called in to capture the dino and I didn't correct them. I stayed with the DPW a bit longer but I had to quit. I just couldn't do it anymore. Not knowing what happened. I didn't mean for anyone to get hurt. For your friend to... Listen I had to make it right in some small way. So I tracked you down albeit very poorly. I'm sorry it took so long. I'm not very good at internet researching. Or my daughter calls it internet creeping? Either way Hiraya helped me find you. It's amazing what kids can do on their phones. I know this doesn't fix what happened but someone should have this. Someone who cared about her." Mateo says as he hands the group a phone.
"Her phone..." Alexis says.
"I can't believe we actually have Brooklynn's phone." Darius says.
"That night you two had plans. Did she tell you anything about where you were going or why?" Kenji asks.
"All she said was that she had something to show me." Darius says as Kenji looks down at the phone.
"That phone got a map?" Mateo asks startling the group.
"What? What? Do you see 'em?" Mateo asks in alarm.
"No sorry. We sorta... forgot you were there." Darius says.
"You know it'd be great to find someplace safe to go or even know where we are." Mateo says.
"Yeah. Let me look. What? I thought it was..." Kenji says as he tries to unlock Brooklynn's phone with no luck.
"Let me try. Here." Darius says as he easily unlocks the phone much to Kenji's annoyance and hands the phone back to Kenji.
"Well we're still in Colorado." Kenji says as he opens the map.
"Wait what's that?" Darius asks as he and Alexis look at the phone.
"That's just a gas station Darius." Alexis says.
"No not that. Home? Wait Brooklynn had a place here?" Darius asks as the groups sees a house icon on the phone.
"What? No she didn't. Did she?" Kenji asks in surprise.
"Well this says she's got a home that's only 40 minutes away." Darius says.
"Come on man." Kenji says as he face palms.
"You didn't know your friend had a house here? That's messed up. But hey if neither of her friends knew about this place then it sounds like a pretty safe hiding spot to me. Point me in the right direction." Mateo says.
*Timeskip*
"The map says this is the place." Darius says as the group gets out of the car in front of a building.
"Uh this is it for me fellas. I shouldn't have got caught up in this in the first place." Mateo says as he rolls down the window.
"You're not coming with?" Darius asks annoyedly.
"Darius it's fine. Thanks for the save. And the lift." Kenji says as he puts his hand on Darius's shoulder.
"Sure. Good luck." Mateo says before the group goes inside and manages to get into the room after cracking the security code.
"Doesn't seem like much of a home. I wonder what she was doing here?" Alexis asks as the group goes inside and looks around the room as Darius tries to call Sammy using Brooklynn's phone with no luck at getting her to pick up.
"DPW press releases from Dudley Cabrera's office? He's one of the regional directors. I met him a couple of times." Darius says as he looks over some papers on Brooklynn's desk.
"Kenji you okay?" Alexis asks as she notices Kenji appearing uncomfortable.
"Yeah its just a lot is all." Kenji says as Alexis smiles at him softly and nods while Darius looks through Brooklynn's computer.
"It's so cold in here. She was always leaving these in the middle of the floor. It was so annoying. I was so afraid I was gonna..." Kenji says as he stumbles on one of Brooklynn's shoes.
"Break your neck?" Darius asks.
"Did she do that when she was staying with you after we broke up?" Kenji asks as Darius chuckles.
"I swear she did it just to annoy us." Darius says as Kenji chuckles.
"Anything yet D?" Alexis asks as Kenji goes in the closet.
"Check this out! It's an invoice? For asset nine. Brooklynn was asking your dad about dinosaurs showing up where they shouldn't, buying and selling. Mateo was doing an off-the-books transfer. Is someone from the DPW selling dinosaurs? It lines up! Mateo was supposedly there that night to capture the Allosaurus but he was actually there to give it to someone, probably whoever was buying it. I gotta tell Cabrera. I thought the world was ready to keep dinosaurs safe but instead they're just being exploited for profit again. Just like Hammond, Masrani, Daniel..." Darius says angrily.
"Darius? Alexis? You gotta come see this." Kenji says.
"What did you find? What is that?" Alexis asks as the group goes into the closet and sees a huge bag filled with money.
"I found this inside. Here's to our new working relationship. DK." Kenji says as he holds up a note.
"DK? As in Daniel Kon?" Darius asks in alarm.
"It's my dad's handwriting." Kenji says.
"W-What was Brooklynn doing with... How much money is even in there?" Darius asks.
"At least a few million. My dad was going on and on about me joining his legacy. Maybe this is it. This was his legacy." Kenji says sadly.
"What are you saying?" Alexis asks curiously.
"To restart his empire my dad was buying dinosaurs and Brooklynn... S-she was helping him do it." Kenji says in shock.
"You... You don't believe that." Darius says in shock.
"It makes sense. Why else would she have this money? Or keep this apartment from us? W-Why else wouldn't she tell us she was going to see my dad or tell you why you were meeting that night?" Kenji asks angrily.
"I don't..." Darius says sadly in shock.
"Maybe 'cause you'd never approve. We should go to that drop. Maybe we can find out who from the DPW is selling dinosaurs. Maybe we'll find out who's been after us. Maybe we'll figure out what Brooklynn wanted to show you. Or what else she was hiding from us." Kenji says angrily as the group leave and use a motorbike they found to leave.